Transitioning from Trance to Melodic House: Why You Should Explore New Genres

Transitioning from Trance to Melodic House: Why You Should Explore New Genres

If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent years making Trance music. After awhile, it can get old. Especially with genres like Trance where there is a very specific formula to follow and not much room for experimentation. Eventually, you WILL experience burnout at some point and music will start feeling like a chore. One of the best ways I’ve found to get over this roadblock is to try producing other genres. One of those is Melodic House.  

Why Transition to Melodic House?

First off, you might be wondering, “Why should I even consider producing Melodic House?” Here’s a few of the reasons:

1. Broadening Your Skill Set

2. Reaching a New Audience

3. Refreshing Your Creativity

4. Opportunities for Collaboration

5. Staying Relevant 

Let’s go into each of these reasons in more detail. 

1. Broadening Your Skill Set

Broadening Your Skill Set

Trance always follows a very specific formula and is more focused on the music aspect of production. Like Beautiful melodies, breakdowns but always follows a very strict formula .

So you already have a strong foundation in music production. Transitioning to Melodic House will challenge you to learn new techniques and approaches like experimenting with different rhythms, sound design, and arrangement styles.

This makes you a much stronger producer and if you apply some the things you did with Melodic House to Your Trance tracks, you’ll stand out from everyone else.

2. Reaching a New Audience

Reaching a New Audience

Every genre of music has it’s own audience or people that prefer listening to each style. Melodic House is no different. 

By producing tracks in this genre, you can tap into a whole new audience and gain potential fans. 

This doesn’t mean you’re abandoning your Trance fans though. If you decide to start releasing Melodic House tracks, do it under a new name. This way your original name can be for Trance, and your new one for Melodic House. 

3. Refreshing Your Creativity

Refreshing your creativity

Making tracks in the same genre over and over again can cause major burnout. It does and can get old after awhile. 

Trying something new, like Melodic House, can help you overcome that. It’s something “new”. Human beings like “new”. It’s about resetting. Starting fresh. 

Melodic House is very experimental and it’s not as rigid as Trance so it forces you to be more creative with your tracks. 

4. Opportunities for Collaboration

Opportunities for Collaboration

Every genre has it’s own producers that make music for it. By you trying out Melodic House, this opens up massive opportunities for you to work with/collab with new producers. Especially if you’ve been doing the same genre for years. There’s only so many people on your level you can collab with. 

Working with others can also introduce you to new techniques and ideas and also expose you to more fans because your collab partner’s fans will hear your track you collab with their fav artist on, 

5. Staying Relevant

Staying Relevant

The music industry is constantly changing, with new genres and trends emerging all the time.

One year Trance might be huge, the next, not as much. 

Maybe a new genre comes out that everybody goes crazy for and then several months later, it’s dead.

However, there’s several genres that never really die out. One of those is Melodic House. And this is one of the most modern “newest trends”. 

So making tracks in this genre is a way for you to become or stay relevant ( depending on your stage in your career ) and will keep or make your tracks more appealing to larger audiences. 

Conclusion

Transitioning from Trance to Melodic House might seem like a big step, but it’s one worth taking. By broadening your skill set, reaching new audiences, resetting yourself, and staying relevant in the industry, you can really take things to a whole new level. 

Remember, the key is to have fun and experiment. Don’t be afraid of sounding like S***.  It’s a new genre. You’re not going to be AVIRA on your first go lol 

So just get started, hit the studio and HAVE SOME FUN!

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